For the second time this week there has been a bomb scare in a Long Island school, and this time there was a ransom demand.
The Amagansett elementary school was evacuated this morning, Wednesday, according to East Hampton town police, after the Amagansett School District officials received an email from an anonymous source at 8.51 AM, stating that several bombs had been placed in the school, “as well as in every school in New York.”
The email also included a demand for cash, to be dropped at an address in northern New York, police said.
School officials notified East Hampton town police and the school building was evacuated, police said.
After an exhaustive search by law enforcement no bomb or anything else of a suspicious nature was found and an “all clear” was declared by police at 10:55 a.m., police said.
East Hampton town police are working closely with Suffolk County and New York State police on the ongoing investigation, police said.
The incident followed a bomb threat that led to the evacuation of all Southampton school buildings on Monday, police said.
According to Southampton Village Police Det. Sgt. Herm Lamison, at about 10:34 a.m., a call came in from the Southampton school district’s security team, stating that the district office had received an email from an unknown sender.
“I placed bombs inside of every school from Southampton,” the email said, according to Lamison. “The bombs will explode in a few hours. A lot of people will die. You all deserve to die.”
That threat also, like the one today, did not turn up anything suspicious.
